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You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that…
Deepen your understanding of AES implementation using golang.
Update December 14, 2021: After this post was published, on June 4, 2021, a federal magistrate judge in Kansas issued another opinion denying the government's application for a geofence warrant.Update May 17, 2021: Since this post was published, the court unsealed its July 24, 2020 opinion denying...
Rootless containers is a new concept that don’t require root privileges in order to formulate, but have some unique challenges.
Say Hi to Thomas. Thomas's first weeks at Fly have been hectic, but he's been taking notes, copious notes that can teach you all about the wild world of certificate infrastructure. Read on to discover more...
All this work was done in November last year. I haven’t worked on it since, but others have shown interest in picking this up, so it’s about time this gets thrown out in the open.
A TCP reset attack is executed using a single packet of data, no more than a few bytes in size. A spoofed TCP segment, crafted and sent by an attacker, tricks two victims into abandoning a TCP connection, interrupting possibly vital communications between them.
Today, we’re excited to open up a beta of a third approach to keeping web browsing safe with Cloudflare Browser Isolation.
By James Forshaw, Project ZeroIn my previous blog post I discussed an issue with the Windows Kern...
Warning: Half-satire, half-truth
Recent studies have suggested various side-channel attacks for eavesdropping sound by analyzing the side effects of sound waves on nearby objects (e.g., a bag of chips and window) and devices (e.g., motion sensors). These methods pose a great threat to privacy, however they are limited in one of the
Milton should be working with the formerly big 3. He is just another fraud like musk…
Incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type confusion. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw.
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroThis is a three-part series on exploiting messenger ap...
I am a big fan of my Kindle. This is the device I’d bring over to a desert island. I am also a fairly frequent user of the highlight feature where you can select a bit of text you like and save it. One thing is bothering me though: the lack of open API on the Kindle to retrieve the data about me. Amazon provides the…
I found the creator of Rainbow Table's paper, aimed at cryptanalysts, was pretty inaccessible considering the simplicity and elegance of Rainbow Tables, so this is an overview of it for a layman.
Curating and controlling global information flows What’s the Problem? While most major international social media networks remain banned from the Chinese market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Chinese social media companies are expanding overseas and building up large global audiences. Some of those…
A collection of kernel and userland settings one can change to improve the security and usability of a Linux system. Targeted at Arch, but should work for other distros too.
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Bashing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seems to have become one of American activists’ favourite hobbies in the tech field. Some criticism is entirely justified. But many claims that the GDPR is “counterproductive” or “misses the point” are based on misconceptions, rather than an…
Kraken Security Labs has devised a way to extract seeds from both cryptocurrency hardware wallets offered from industry leader Trezor, the Trezor One and Trezor Model T. The attack requires just 15 minutes of physical access to the device. This is the first time that the detailed steps for a current attack against…
Identify past, current, and possible future locations through the geolocation and chronolocation of media provided by a specific user.
Is this guide only for developers? This guide is mainly aimed at developers working alone or in teams, team leaders, service providers but also at anyone interested in web or application development. It provides advice and best practices, and thus gives useful keys to understand the GDPR for every stakeholder…
